As consumers' disposable incomes dwindle, they are flocking to buy low-cost netbook PCs, driving global shipments up by 68.5% in 2009 and by a 2,424% in 2008, according to iSuppli.
STATS ChipPAC has posted its second straight quarterly loss in the first quarter of 2009, joining fellow packaging and testing house Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE). Its...
Taiwan-based backlight unit (BLU) maker Radiant Opto-Electronics has reported first-quarter consolidated revenues of NT$7.21 billion (US$214.01 million), up 11% compared to the fourth...
Network equipment maker Zyxel Communications saw its losses widen to NT$104 million (US$3.08 million) in the first quarter of 2009 compared to a loss of NT$73 million in the previous...
Taiwan-based LCD panel and system maker Innolux Display has reported profits of NT$4.85 billion (US$143.85 million) for 2008. The company had profits of NT$6.87 billion through the...
VIA Technologies has decided to reduce its capital by 60% to NT$5.17 billion (US$153.4 million), with an effective date to be set during a shareholders meeting slated for June 19,...
Japan's Elpida Memory has announced preliminary consolidated financial results for its fiscal 2008 ended March 31, 2009 and plans to release actual results on May 12. The memory chipmaker...
Taiwan's industrial production index (IPI) posted an on-year decrease of 26.03% in March 2009, with the manufacturing sector decreasing 26.78%, according to Taiwan's Bureau of Foreign...
Micro-Star International (MSI) is expected to ship 4.5 million notebooks in 2009, up 50% from its upward-revised figure of three million units for 2008, according to a Chinese-language...
Asia Optical, on April 24, reported is financial report for the first quarter of 2009, recording a net loss of NT$259 million (US$7.7 million), equivalent to a net loss per share...
Domestic mobile phone shipments in the Japan market dropped by an annualized rate of 29.3% to 35.89 million units in fiscal 2008 (April 2008-March 2009), according to data released...
Taiwan-based military and ruggedized notebook maker Mitac Technology has decided to deal out a cash dividend of NT$1 for its 2008 operations. The company recorded net profits of NT$1.2...
Taiwan-based network equipment maker CyberTAN Technology has decided to deal out a dividend of NT$0.41 for its 2008 business operations, including NT$0.40 in cash and NT$0.01 in shares...
Korea-based LG Electronics (LGE) reportedly plans to quit PDP TV production in 2009 and will sell its related equipment and technologies to China-based Changhong, according to industry...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced that consolidated revenues on a US GAAP basis were NT$334.34 billion (US$9.9 billion) for 2008, with an earnings per...